Railroad Fiction.......short stories.......

Txhighballer · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:49 am **Posts:** 773

Does anybody have any idea if there is any out there,or how does it get published,and would there be a viable market for it? thanks for help!

mxdata · **Joined:** Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:54 am **Posts:** 609

We get to read some very excellent railroad fiction regularly in some of the crew reports.

Seriously though, railroads are so far out of the main stream of public knowledge nowadays that it might be very challenging to find anyone who would print railroad fiction stories. Back in the 1930s and 1940s it was different.

scrmcurator · **Posted:** Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:10 pm

mxdata wrote:

We get to read some very excellent railroad fiction regularly in some of the crew reports.

You now owe me a new monitor and keyboard!

mxdata · **Joined:** Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:54 am **Posts:** 609

Over the years I have seen an incredible variety of talented and creative ways to blame a locomotive for almost any type of error that an engineer can make in setting up the controls, particularly when changing ends on push-pull equipment in commuter service.

NH0401 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:49 pm

The best railroad fiction I ever read were any number of 1940's-50's Alco-GE ads as printed in various trade papers. :-)

cwylde · **Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:02 am

We print short run books and today's technology allows for reasonable cost production of minimal quantities in the paperback format. If you would like t discuss this further email me. My email is with my profile.

We have produced other rail related books and they have provided reasonable revenues for their respective organizations.

cwylde · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:48 pm

Ken,

Did you ever have any luck. I am sorry we never connected. I am still available and interested. Check your RYPN email Inbox.

Txhighballer · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:49 am **Posts:** 773

I did and I e-mailed you back. Thanks for getting back in touch!